~chron

Did a Reckoning 2s graph again today, figured I’d share:

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Neth on the blizz forums says they’re planning some form of faction transfer. BRB male undead rogue!

It’s a pretty huge change and there’s a number of issues that I’m curious to see them solve. The official AJ thread about it has some ideas (and a whole lot of whining). The way it’s worded makes it sound like there will be a 1-to-1 mapping (a la Orb of Deception) but I have no idea how that will work with class restrictions. It’s also going to put the balance microscope on racials even more; could potentially be a huge inadvertent warlock nerf if everyone goes undead.

If they also allow race changes within your faction I’m going to have some tough decisions to make. Anyway, no point speculating until we have a bit more info.

They’re gonna have to come up with some sort of Troll-only AIDS epidemic lore to explain the sudden disappearance of an entire race.

The engineering changes look pretty fun, though they don’t affect arena at all. Except possibly the bomb-belt, depending on how it’s implemented? The quality-of-life stuff is good though!

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Since the fires reset tonight I was able to finish my Midsummer meta-achievement and snag the “Flame Warden” title. Midsummer is one of my favourite world events, the city invasion/defense part is always good fun. And the fires themselves are surprisingly good cash!

Just Brewfest to go for the drake :]

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So the 3.2 patch notes are massive and crazy and I’m not going to do a whole list of everything exciting because there’s way too much good stuff and half of it will probably change between now and the PTR anyway.

Interesting times though!

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As we often speculated, since epic gems are coming in the next patch, they’re going to be buffing the professions to keep them in-line with the new benefits blacksmithing will be getting (Blue post, WowInsider coverage).

Mostly it’s just minor stat buffs. The weirdest change is alchemy which is losing its arena-usable healing or mana potion and gaining an arena-usable 1 hour flask (hopefully the mats are easy) which only works for alchemists and increases your spellpower, ap, or strength. Yay farming?

EDIT: Nevermind, the new flask is not consumable, I’m bad.

Also the availability of new heirloom chests from the Argent Tournament means I guess I’ll have to start doing those awful dailies on at least one character. Yay farming?

Sidenote: if you’ve been selling your JC tokens now is probably a good time to start saving, since they’re going to be used to buy the new patterns. They haven’t said how many you’ll need but I’m guessing it’ll be at least as many as the current meta patterns. Yay farming?

(and they’re buffing pyro rocket damage, wheee)

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